What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
John RuskinPunishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
John RuskinArchitecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.
John RuskinThe principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
John Ruskin